Dedication
Foreword—Virginia S. Lee
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ways of Inquiry—Pathways and Partnerships for
Grassroots Innovation
Jeff Galle and Rebecca L. Harrison
Chapter 1: Moving Pictures and Words: Multimodal Projects in
College Composition
Laura Ng and Karen Redding
Chapter 2: Reacting to the Past and What it Means Today
Linda Hughes
Chapter 3: PBL and Collaborative Learning in the Complex Learning
of Solar Geometry
Bronne Dytoc
Chapter 4: Discovering Empirical Patterns in the Social Sciences:
Small Assignments with Web-Based Data in Introductory Classes
Thomas D. Lancaster
Chapter 5: The Ethics of the A-Bomb
Pangratios Papacosta
Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Beneficiaries: Using Inquiry-Guided
Learning to Foster Social Research Skills and Critical Thinking
Lyndi Hewitt and Lorena Russell
About the Contributors
Index
Jeffery Galle is Associate Professor of English, founding Director
of the Center for Academic Excellence, and organizer of IPLA at
Oxford College of Emory University. Co-author of How to Be a ‘HIP’
Campus: Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education (2015) and
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education:
From Abstract to Quotidian (forthcoming May 2017), Galle’s
scholarship focuses on pedagogies involving active learning,
particularly those associated with experiential learning, place,
and inquiry.
Rebecca L. Harrison, Associate Professor of English and Director of
STEAM English at the University of West Georgia, teaches courses in
Southern women writers, American literature, pedagogy, and
secondary English education. A women’s literature specialist,
Harrison has published on writers such as Eudora Welty and Beatrice
Witte Ravenel, alongside her work on active pedagogies; her recent
book Inhabiting La Patria, a critical collection on Julia Alvarez,
was published by SUNY Press in 2013.
At a time when, despite lip service, teaching is woefully
undervalued in much of higher education, Oxford College of Emory
University’s Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts honors
committed, innovative, and successful teaching and teachers.
These essays reflect some of the best sessions from IPLA over the
years and provide the reader with powerful and successful models
for improving their teaching, and, more importantly, through that
teaching improving student learning.
*Edward L. Queen, Center for Ethics, Emory University*
Pedagogical approaches to Inquiry-based learning serve to build a
solid foundation for critical thinking skills that are essential to
student success in college and careers. The essays contained in
this volume will serve as model best practices to assist other
educators trying to adopt an inquiry-based approach.
*Jill Lane, Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and
Assessment, Clayton State University*
In this collection of essays from the IPLA
incubator, Galle and Harrison and their authors show
that, while inquiry-guided learning projects may be grounded in
specific courses, the approach itself transcends
these particular contexts, and inquiry is
ultimately a habit of mind of the educated person.
*Nancy Chick, Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for
Teaching & Learning; University Chair in Teaching and Learning,
University of Calgary*
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